Wow that's amazing that you attended that night! I want to hear more about it in person.

I need to get one of these European Weird Little Guy Fellowships.

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Official HD Music Video) YouTube video by remhq

MoMA is having a retrospective of Tarsem's films. I haven't seen his video for R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion for many years.
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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Before: New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Crescendo With Second-Home Tax Plan After: New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Apex With Second-Home Tax Plan

Change in Headline

Please don't use speaker phone while in library. Ask for headphones at the front desk.

Only a fallen society needs this sign

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.

The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.

The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Not yet. The bill was introduced but it hasn't passed yet.

Per the website: bodegacatsofnewyork.com/advocacy/

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

My maternal grandparents' caravan rig during the Great Depression. They moved around Idaho & nearby states & panned for gold on the Salmon River. Like migrant workers today, helped on farms & ranches to make money & earn food for the horses & 5 kids. This photo impressed me as a boy & still does.

relaxing

first time in a good while

compression yellow

a small contemporary warm-yellow glazed florist vase resting on lower shelf of a mid-c American maple plant stand

under a modest formal gilt/black lacquer 18th-c pier mirror (not pictured), whose original glass silvering has heavily - and ironically - romantically deteriorated

fast food

heated fresh Whole Foods 365 quiche Lorraine, chopped parsley, chopped celery leaves; torn young Romaine lettuce, refreshed in ice water, some sliced celery stem, chopped parsley, chopped celery leaves, Maldon salt, Vietnam pepper, Cretan olive oil, Italian white wine vinegar

Who is hiring remote staff+ engineers. Feels like its about time to do something new. github.com/moonpolysoft...

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*rubs temples*

It would legitimately be easier to just impeach him than do this. I do not understand it.

What--I can't emphasize this enough--the fuck is going on.

2 books on a wooden surface. On the left is Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple. On the right is The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

Latest book acquisitions by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @chanda.blacksky.app

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

I'm kind of fascinated by that big Lauren Sanchez Bezos feature in the Times. There's just nothing going on there at all, no insight or conflict or notable color, so the hook is just "this unfathomably rich but otherwise fatuous person enjoys their lifestyle a great deal." Fantastic stuff.

WHO IS THIS FOR???

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Again, there's a strange feeling of whiplash when you watch what's happening at the federal level at the hands of a political party and movement that actively wants to make people's lives worse and then turn around and see a leader at the city level who actively wants to make people's lives better.

FIRST ON STREETSBLOG: Mamdani To Fully Fund Trash Containerization - Streetsblog New York City He's finally trimming New York's 5-o'clock shadow.

Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards.

Also:

"The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-base...

Why fun tech jobs went extinct YouTube video by Good Work

Quite funny grind or be part of the “permanent underclass” youtu.be/0tLEszJs7hc?...

The AI Great Leap Forward In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

This is a fun read leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

125th Street erector set

Candyass Money 1994
glazed ceramic 3 1/4" x 1 1/8" x 1/2"

one of many Cary Leibowitz/Candyass multiples "..that turns lemons into lemonade by declaring things currency and, when sold in a commercial art context, enables the artist to sell his 'loss' for profit.” magazine.art21.org/2014/04/01/m...